diff --git a/package/hal/Config.in b/package/hal/Config.in
index 56ed42854f..623825cd1d 100644
--- a/package/hal/Config.in
+++ b/package/hal/Config.in
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_HAL
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_DBUS
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_DBUS_GLIB
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_HWDATA
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_UDEV
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_UDEV_VOLUME_ID
 	help
 	  The Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) suite.
diff --git a/package/hal/hal.mk b/package/hal/hal.mk
index fb152d6a58..a72bc63ed6 100644
--- a/package/hal/hal.mk
+++ b/package/hal/hal.mk
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ $(TARGET_DIR)/$(HAL_TARGET_BINARY): $(HAL_DIR)/hald/hald
 	done
 	-$(STRIPCMD) $(STRIP_STRIP_UNNEEDED) $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/lib/libhal*
 
-hal: host-pkg-config dbus-glib hwdata udev-volume_id $(TARGET_DIR)/$(HAL_TARGET_BINARY)
+hal: host-pkg-config dbus-glib hwdata udev $(TARGET_DIR)/$(HAL_TARGET_BINARY)
 
 hal-clean:
 	rm -f $(TARGET_DIR)/etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf